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Kate Briggs
Kate Briggs is a writer and translator. She teaches at the American University of Paris and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. 'Translation in the First Person' is an excerpt from This Little Art, a book in progress about the practice of translation.

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Translation in the First Person

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Issue No. 15

Kate Briggs

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Issue No. 15

IT IS 1 JUNE 2015 and I am standing outside no. 11 rue Servandoni in Paris’s sixth arrondissement. I have lived in this city,...

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poetry

February 2013

Redacted, Redacted

Les Kay

poetry

February 2013

Here the censorship, which you’ve taught yourself, is self-inflicted (low sugar, low fat); it begins with the swinging shadow...

fiction

Issue No. 17

Boom Boom

Clemens Meyer

TR. Katy Derbyshire

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Issue No. 17

You’re flat on your back on the street. And you thought the nineties were over.   And they nearly...

poetry

Issue No. 2

The Brothel

Kit Buchan

poetry

Issue No. 2

I unearthed a little brothel in the spring of forty-three, It was captained by a midwife who was ninety...

 

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